Re: Issues with Quorum Commit

From: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Issues with Quorum Commit
Date: 2010-10-06 08:09:08
Message-ID: AANLkTikuu3PrarLUV=TtTqeLwqxN6pMUwEnzY_Uf2fAk@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
<heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
> No. Synchronous replication does not help with availability. It allows you
> to achieve zero data loss, ie. if the master dies, you are guaranteed that
> any transaction that was acknowledged as committed, is still committed.

Hmm.. but we can increase availability without any data loss by using
synchronous
replication. Many people have already been using synchronous
replication softwares
such as DRBD for that purpose.

Regards,

--
Fujii Masao
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
NTT Open Source Software Center

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